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Now that Game Informer has revealed the presence of Elder Scrolls Online, we have a few thoughts to share about what we think the game will mean to the MMORPG space. Read on and then weigh in with your thoughts in the comments.

I don't think I'm reaching if I say we have all spent hours of our RPG time in the world of the Elder Scrolls with around half a dozen games and endless gameplay over the past two decades the franchise has become legendary (and deservedly so). Skyrim has been voted the number one game of the 2011 many times over. Now, we will finally get to adventure in Elder Scrolls Online with our friends, and without the shoddy help of a third-party add-on. Folks, ESO is a reality. Did I call it in my predictions last year, and this year, or did I call it? The scope of an online version of Elder Scrolls is massive. It is the perfect world for an MMO to take place in. It's ripe for the plunder as it were. But what does this do to the MMO market for the next ten years, if anything?

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Their lore is for real, but the MMO market is bloated and ripe for bubble popping. If they go for a darker, more reaslitc version of middle ages politics I could see a niche opening up with the Game of Thrones crowd, but this game is what 3 years away?! Frankly I think any new MMO's after 2013 are sucker bets.

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"I was once a poster like you, then...." ya your right, forget that.

Anyways, IF they can pull this off, and in a decent amount of time(IE : lets hope its not 'planned' for 2027 and we just gotta 'wait' for the vaporware in the meantime) it will definatly change the face of the mmo industry. Be nice to have a few 'out of the box' sucessful titles. (And being that, more of the 'trapped in the box' styles die out and dissapear)

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If it goes like Elder Scrolls Series, it will fail so ugly hard. This game is only good because you can get everything in 100h. A mmo doesnt work that way. Maybe you need there 1000h and thats a huge turnoff.

Anyway Elder Scrolls Online is the worst idea i heard the last 20y. Its gona be like Darfalls and how many play that? 3000 max?

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I don't think Elder Scrolls will make a good MMO. They need to stick with single player RPGs. I have loved Elders Scrolls for years and years I really hope with game doesn't kill the franchise like SWTOR did for Star Wars.

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Really love that studio since FONV, possibly one of the best written games ever. Also one of the most immersive sprpg's I ever played.

Realy promising news.

I have actually always wanted an Elder Scrolls MMO, but at the same time, it's such a huge task and I have worried that it would get really fouled up if it ever happened. So while I agree with your excitement.....I can't say "already 9000x better than GW2," because I have no idea what they're going to do with this HUGE and GREAT intellectual property. There is such a massive possibility of success and also such an overwhelmingly large potential for failure....failure on a level greater than that of SWTOR, I'm afraid. Let's hope against all hope that that does NOT come to fruition, because this could be the greatest MMO of all time. What could match it if it was well done? Nothing. Earth shattering potential both for making us dance for joy or causing us to cry rivers of bitter tears.